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Recycling coomassie blue


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#1 selaphiel

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Posted 09 November 2009 - 01:39 PM

Hi everyone,

I have a simple question, When you stain your SDSpage gel with coomassie blue, do you recycle the solution?
I know we recycle ponceau solution but I have some doubts about the coomassie blue.

thanks :P

#2 Gerard

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Posted 09 November 2009 - 01:59 PM

You can use it several times if you wish, at our protein-HRE we used it until there was to much precipitation on the gel
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-- "You must assume no plural without necessity".

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Posted 10 November 2009 - 07:16 AM

we used to reuse coomassie (r250) but found that our results would vary so we started using it once and discard.

Edited by mdfenko, 10 November 2009 - 07:17 AM.

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#4 Helios

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Posted 10 November 2009 - 11:19 PM

we reuse coomassie regularly in our lab....havn't seen any problems till now

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Posted 11 November 2009 - 12:57 AM

depends on the purpose... universally it is reyused.. but it is advisable for a identity method... for a method to be used as purity, if the solution is recycled more number of times (no of times here has to be researched) the LOD and LOQ can be compromised!!!
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#6 selaphiel

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Posted 13 November 2009 - 07:51 AM

Thanks, that's what I thought but I wanted confirmation.
I'm going to reuse it.

Have a nice weekend everybody





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